Played in the London band, The Blacksheep, as a spotty youth and also sang in the Wandsworth School Choir when they made their first record. After they had gotten rid of HARPER, the choir went on to win a Grammy in 1972 and 1975. Banished and forgotten, Harper then spent many years on a tiny mid-Atlantic island ....then several more in the backwoods of Asia writing strange bestseller Nostradamus & cabalistic future history books that even found their way to University libraries such as Harvard, Cornell, Michigan, Arizona, Ateneo de Manila and Singapore. Notwithstanding the popular belief that he is a crossbreed of the late Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Lou Reed, Dylan and Tom Waits, he is actually without musical influence, except mangled Handel, drunk tribesmen and tone-deaf crickets ...guess that's why stuff comes out kinda weird! Guaranteed to displease most...BUT some of what they say just ain't true ........."Countless people have listened closely to Harper's music. Some of them have gone on to lead reasonably normal lives." .........................Artwork pictured with some of the whimsies is from Harper John's SCRAP MENTAL collection currently previewing at Meyersberg, the new culturally dented hubcap of Canada.